ga:searchDepth

[chrissky]

The doc says "The average number of subsequent page views made on your
site after a use of your internal search feature."

I can't say that I understand this explanation in light of the value I
get from the API: 20,000. Is the doc wrong? Or am I misinterpreting? I
would have expected a value of around 2

Chris Harrington,
ShufflePoint

[chrissky]

In reply to my own question, my findings:

Results Pageviews/Search
ga:pageviews[filter ga:pagePath=="/search"] / ga:uniquePageviews
[filter ga:pagePath=="/search"]
note that
ga:pageviews[filter ga:searchUsed=="Visits With Site Search"] /
ga:uniquePageviews[filter ga:searchUsed=="Visits With Site Search"]
gives a slightly bigger number than what is presented in GA portal

% Search Exits:
= ga:searchExits / ga:searchUniques

% Search Refinements
= ga:searchRefinements / ga:pageviews[filter ga:pagePath=="/search"]

note that we would have thought it would be
= ga:searchRefinements / ga:searchUniques
but that does not match what's on the GA portal

Time after Search
= ga:searchDepth / ga:searchUniques

Search Depth
= ga:searchDepth / ga:searchUniques

avg searches / Search visit
= ga:searchUniques / ga:searchVisits

onsite search visit rate
= ga:searchVisits / ga:visits

[Nick]

Thanks for posting this Chris!
-Nick

[chrissky]

Nick,

I still cannot get the right number for "% search refinements". Can
you explain how the GA portal calculates that one?

Thanks,
Chris

[Nick]

Hi Chris,

I did some digging on this. The calculation should be
ga:searchRefinements / "Searches"

Yet the API currently does not expose a "Searches" metric, so you can
not derive this calculated metric through the API. If you'd like, feel
free to open a feature request so we can prioritize getting this
metric in the reports.

Thanks,
-Nick

[chrissky]

Thanks Nick. I added it as a feature request.
- Chris